Nest of Tens

by Beth Pinsker, Senior Producer (see more from this contributor)

While July likes to work alone, as she has built up a following and earned more grant money, her projects have gotten bigger and bigger ‑- leading her up to a few feature-film debuts financed by Britain's Film Four and IFC Films.


Nest of Tens, a 27-minute video piece she created in 2000 with funds from the Andrea Frank Foundation, is a larger-scale collaboration that interweaves four stories about control, using children and a developmentally disabled adult to convey her point. It was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2002.


"It's exciting to have somebody coming squarely out of that experimental world make her way into a more mainstream independent film community ‑- but with those sensibilities intact," says Ruby Lerner, president of the Creative Capital Foundation, which has funded July's work. "I love that. I think that's the future."

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